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Comfort Food by Victoria Ying A graphic comicette for these times https://bit.ly/2XFTbHX 'Carefully laid trap'? Why is China imposing tariffs on our barley (and what's a tariff) It's true that Australia imposes its own "countervailing duties" on a wide range of imports, from Thai pineapples to Italian tinned tomatoes, in a bid to support our homegrown …
Continue reading "Diggings 29 May, 2020: COVID – 19 roundup 4# and other good stuff"
Another week of writings about the future of dining. But for me the story that stands out is the lead article on migrant workers in Australia. I also was very taken with the article on India's Mother Earth cafes growing and serving up Indigenous crops and the possibility of plastics made from plants that will …
Continue reading "Diggings 21 May 2020: COVID – 19 roundup 4#"
I begin and end this edition of Diggings with a good news story totally unrelated to COVID-19 Bruce Pascoe sitting in the mandadyan nalluk on the hill above his property. Photograph: Isabella Moore/The Guardian ‘It’s time to embrace the history of the country’: first harvest of dancing grass in 200 years. A most welcome …
Continue reading "Diggings 15 May 2020: COVID-19 roundup 3#"
A second round of tales of COVID – 19 and foodways. Price freeze offers further relief for farmers Thousands of Queensland farmers will see their irrigation water prices remain the same or fall next year thanks to a Palaszczuk Government price freeze. Natural Resources Minister Dr Anthony Lynham said the Palaszczuk Government would freeze …
Continue reading "Diggings 10 May 2020: COVID-19 roundup 2#"
